SOURCE: "Norman Douglas," in The Sewanee Review, Vol. XL, No. 1, January, 1932, pp. 55-67.

In the following essay, Wheatley surveys such major works by Douglas as South Wind, Experiments, and Goodbye to Western Culture, commenting favorably on his main themes and style and comparing his main themes and style and comparing his writings to those of other authors, both contemporary and classical.

Here in America and perhaps in general elsewhere, Norman Douglas has suffered from neglect. Except for the attention paid to South Wind and the rather craven acceptance of Goodbye to Western Culture, he has not been properly introduced to a public who could reasonably enjoy him by taking pains to do so. There have been few articles in American magazines: the best of them was "The Early Work of Norman Douglas", by Edward D. McDonald, in The Bookman for September, 1927. There have been reviews of his books...